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Gertrude Stein Inspirational Quotes (206)

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Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
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It always did bother me that the American public were more interested in me than in my work. And after all there is no sense in it because if it were not for my work they would not be interested in me so why should they not be more interested in my work than in me. That is one of the things one has to worry about in America.
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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.
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The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
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If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
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If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
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The artist works by locating the world in himself
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One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.... Knowledge is the thing you know and how can you know more than you do know.
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Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn't learned much.
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Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.
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It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.
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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
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